Category Archives: National accounts

Three centuries of macro-economic statistics

by Frits Bos Eagle Economic & Statistics Working Paper 2011-02 This paper describes the history of the national accounts starting from the incidental estimates by Petty, King and Davenant in the seventeenth century. The period 1930-1950 was a revolution in … Continue reading

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Global Poverty Estimates: A Sensitivity Analysis

Shakatshee Dhongde and Camelia Minoiu WP/11/234 Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … Continue reading

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